J&J Tranfield has acquired KingsCourt Foods, the Cumbria-based frozen sausage company with more than 200 staff, out of receivership.... [more]

QinetiQ is to acquire Westar Aerospace & Defense, the US arms testing company, for £72m.... [more]

Femcare, the health care company with 70 staff in Nottingham and Southampton, has undergone a management buy-out backed by Barclays Private Equity for undisclosed terms.... [more]

InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG), has admitted the company has put a further £1.3bn of assets up for sale. The majority of its UK assets, together with the Hotel InterContinental in Paris, are on t... [more]

Mappin & Webb, the upmarket high street jewellers that includes Watches of Switzerland, is putting its pawnbroking division, TM Sutton, up for sale. The decision comes six years after European Acquisi... [more]

NTL is finalising plans to put its television and radio broadcasting business on the market, according to sources. The sale is expected to generate at least £1.2bn for the UK's largest cable operator,... [more]

Laird has acquired Home Doors and Houseproud, both parts of the BHD Group, for £36m, securing the future of more than 300 jobs in Peterlee.... [more]

Babcock International has acquired Turner & Partners, the provider of construction management services to mobile telecom network operators, for £4m.... [more]

Cobbetts has acquired Walker Charlesworth & Foster, the Leeds-based law firm specialising in housing associations.... [more]

BAe Systems is to acquire DigitalNet, the US supplier of computer systems, for £333m.... [more]

Celotex, the foam insulation manufacturer, has undergone a £20m management buy-out backed by ABN Amro Capital.... [more]

WPP is to acquire Grey Global, the US advertising agency, for £845m.... [more]

Communisis has acquired Dataform, the Newcastle-based print management company, for £22m.... [more]

Media Square is to acquire Coutts, the retail communications company, for £22m.... [more]

Ashtenne has sold the Port of Boston in Lincolnshire to Victoria Wharf for £5m.... [more]

RM has acquired Technology Teaching Systems, the supplier of school curriculum aids, for £11m.... [more]

Punch Taverns has acquired InnSpired, the chain of 1,100 pubs, from Alchemy for £335m, and 88 sites are being sold on to Admiral Taverns for £23m.... [more]

Extreme Group has acquired Legends Surf Shops out of administration, and plans to rebrand and reopen the stores.... [more]

Fact Based Communications has acquired Diverse, the independent TV production company with 30 staff, for about £8m.... [more]

Offshore Crane Engineering of Aberdeen has been bought out of provisional liquidation by TSI, saving 52 jobs.... [more]